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( Jiiife IX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday, June IS. 195S IPoDBtBcal (DoEHveEitrons May Undergo Drastic Changes (Because off ; Video demands Republicans Could Help To Improve Public Shocker By LYLE C. WILSON United Prest Correspondent "Washington (U.R) If Re publican party bosses have the wit to follow and improve on D e m o c r a tic lead, it may not be neces sary after all to refer to next year's nation al conventions as "The Vul garities of '56 The sample of convention processes serv ed up to the Lyle C. Wilson TV public in 1952 was a shocker and eye- opener. The viewing public did not like a lot of the awful go ings on by which political par ties select their presidential tickets. Convention processes had been bad. TV made them wors,e by inviting political nobodies to various strategies to get their faces and names on the air. Now, Democrats have made a tiny start toward reform, knowing that insulting adult intelligence is no way to make votes for a party candidate. Democratic party Chairman Paul M. Butler has approved a suggested regulation of the pro cess of polling state delegations. Hereafter the poll will be taken privately by a representative of the convention chairman who would appear among the polled delegation and take down the names. Tiresome Polls Meanwhile, convention busin ess would proceed. The old sys tem which so offended those present and the television view ers in 1952 was to conduct the poll from the rostrum in full view and hearing of all. Show offs often forced polls merely to get fleeting peek at the TV camera lens and to hear their names over national hookups. Even the legitimate . polls were tiresome. But, for resolute vulgarity, there is no match for the so called demonstration in behalf ef an individual just proposed for nomination as president or Vice-president. These sweaty parades usually re phoney. So are the aspira tions of most of the political 'scene stealers who permit some payroller from back home to rise before the convention and propose them for nomination. The convention should demand a money forfeit if such a time waster failed on the first ballot to poll a fixed percentage of the total vote. There have been demonstra tions of real political impact, uch as the bedlam which help ed stampede the 1940 Republi can convention to nominate Wen dell L. Willkie, a recent Demo crat, who went down for the Free Anti-Polio Vaccine Program for All Children Unnecessary, American Medical Association Declares Washington (U.R) The American Medical Association charged today that a Democratic plan to provide free polio vac cine to all children is "complete ly unnecessary" and would in voive an Tinreasonable ex pense for American taxpayers, "In accordance with the great traditions of medicine," it as serted, "no child will be denied a vaccination because of in ability to pay a physician's fee ' AMA spokesmen told the Sen ate Labor Committee the physi cians organization would re luctantly accept the President's more modest $28,000,000 pro posal to furnish free vaccine only to youngsters, whose par ents cannot pay. Local Problem Solution But they said that no new legislation or federal program really is needed. Physicians and local health authorities, they said, can solve the vaccine prob- count in the ensuing campaign when Harold L. Ickes tagged him as "a barefoot Wall Street lawyer." Smith Vs. McAdoo There was nothing phoney about the rival demdnstrations in 1924 when Alfred E. Smith and William G. McAdoo knock ed each other out after 103 bal lots and left the worthless Dem ocratic presidential nomination to John W. Davis. That was a blood fued. But most of them are fakes and a nosy voter could look into the wings or back alley during any of the more recent political clambakes and see the stooges lining up with their banners for the next parade. The stooges usually number 200 or so and they are non-partisan, appear ing in all demonstrations just for the hell of It or, maybe, for five bucks. There was grumbling among the TV millions during and after the vulgarities of 1952 and there will be more in 1956 unless some sense of the dignity of the occasion wins over the indecent trumperies which have over grown the convention machin ery like rank and poisonous weeds. If reform is accomplish ed, TV can take the bow. Not until 1952 did some millions of citizens get a peek at the tawdry processes they expected to un derwrite with their votes on election day. Not First Triumph It would not be the first such triumph for the science of elec tronics. Back there in 1932 the national conventions got their first real radio hookup. Sen. Les ter J. Dickinson was Republican keynote speaker. He droned on for two hours and fifteen min utes, boring and disappointing millions of listeners. The radio public screamed in protest. You will note, now, that political speeches in and out of conventions usually run about 30 minutes. Radio takes the bow for that. lem under the government's voluntary distribution plan. The AMA's position was out lined by AMA Trustee Julian P. Price and past President Wal ter B. Martin in prepared testi mony before the Committee. Basil O'Connor, president of the National Foundation for In fantile Paralysis, also was called as a witness as the vaccine hear ings entered their second and final day. Foundation sources said O'Connor would not take a pub lic stand on the rival free vac- 30-Day Registration Provision Applies To City Elections Because of the 30-day pro vision on registration of voters in Oregon laws, only those res idents already registered to vote will be eligible to cast ballots in the annexation and budget elec tions July 5, it was pointed out today. Oregon law requires that the poll books be closed for 30 days prior to an election. Names of residents who did not vote in either of the two pre vious elections, the primary or general elections of 1954, were deleted from the registration books recently, and the voters involved were notified. If they did not. reinstate themselves as registered voters, they will not be qualified to vote in the spe cial elections July 5. The questions to be voted on at the two elections that day are 1. Annexation of two areas, totalling more than 3,000 acres, in the city of Medford. Residents of these two areas will cast "bal lots on the proposal. 2. Approval of the city's bud get which this year for the first time in many years exceeds the per cent limitation on in creases; and approval of a city charter change to increase the limitation of general fund levies from 12 to 15 mills. Residents of the city may cast ballots. cine plans of the Democrats and the administration. But they said he was readly to discuss the whole vaccine controversy in which the organization has been deeply involved. 'Socialized Medicine' In testimony Tuesday, Health Secretary Oveta Culp Hobby bluntly branded the Democratic proposal as a "back door" route vaccine to 22 per cent of the na- to "socialized medicine" and said it would cost $130,000,000. Sen. Paul R. Douglas (D-IU.) retorted ; today that the Demo cratic plan has "nothing to do with socialized medicine." "It's a question, he said, whether the government will supply free Morse Introduces Bill . To Start Juniper Project Washington (U.R) Sen Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) said today he had introduced a bill calling for the construction of the Juni per diversion of the Wapinitia irrigation project in his home state. The Wasco county project would include a dam at the head of Clear creek and would cost a total of, $500,000. It would pro vide irrigation water for 2100 acres. Unknown commercially until the early 1930's, glass fiber is now one of the most versatile manufacturing materials. THE Ks IOOK JK Makes DESOTO the Smartest of the smart cars for 1955 MA MAm. Flying Tiger Line Mechanics on Strike Burbank, Calif. (U.R) Air craft mechanics, members of the AFL machinists union, were on strike today against Flying Tig er Airlines terminals in the Un ited States and Canada. Machinists set up picket lines here last night on orders by John Sweeney, grand lodge rep resentative of the International Association of Machinists. Mach inists walked out at the comp any's Newark, N.J., terminal three hours earlier. In addition to Burbank and Newark, Flying Tiger Line, Inc., operates terminals in San Fran cisco, Chicago, Detroit, and Can ada. Company officials said planes were operating as scheduled de spite the mechanics' walkout. "We expect no interruption of service," the officials said. The union and company broke off negotiations here last Thurs day. The union, which represents about 300 Flying Tiger em ployees is seeking journeyman pay scales comparable to those of larger passenger airlines, a general increase of 4Vfc cents hourly and vacation improve ments. ' tion's children under the admini stration proposal or to all of them under the Democratic plan. But Republican Sen. 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